Pinless marking-ticket.



G. A. WALLIN.

PINLESS MARKING TICKET.

APPLIUATION FILED JAN.5,1910.

UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAF A. WALLIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO A. KIMBALL COMPANY, OF

NEW YORK, N. Y., A. CORPORATION 0F NEW YORK.

PINLESS MARKING-TICKET.

Specification o! Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

T o all whom z' may concern.'

Be it known that I, GUsTAF A. WALLIN, a subject of the King of Sweden, and resident of New York, county of New York, State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Pinless Marking-Tickets, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel and eiiicient marking ticket which can be easily and securely attached, without the use of pins or other similar devices, to narrow fabrics such as webbing, ribbon, neck-scarfs, Suspenders and the like, and by preference such pinless ticket is so constructed as to adapt it to standard articles by simple and most effective means.

In accordance with my invention the ticket comprises an elongated blank formed of a plurality of plies of non-metallic, flexible material provided with transverse grooves on one face thereof and opposed permanently expanded portions on the opposite face, a non-elastic metallic stitfener being located between and concealed by the plies and extending substantially the length thereof and bridging or crossing said grooves. The transverse grooves are by preference at proper distances apart to accommodate or substantially correspond to the width of the particular article to which the ticket is to be applied, thereby providing not only a clear and accurate predetermined guide for the folding of the ticket when applied. but also facilitating such folding or bending and at the same time defining the limits of the display portion of the ticket. The opposed permanently expanded portions on t-he opposite face of the ticket enable the latter to be bent or folded on the transverse grooves without cracking or breaking the exposed Surface of the ticket, thereby materially increasing its durability and enhancing its appearance.

The display portion ofthe ticket presents a smooth and flat surface upon which can be printed or otherwise marked the name of the maker of the fabric, its cost, and such other information as may be desired, the entire display portion being exposed to view when the ticket is applied to the fabric.

Vhen applied the ticket embraces and is frictionally held in place upon the fabric without the use of pins, staples, or other fastening means which enter or penetrate the fabric, the application and removal of the ticket being effected easily and rapidly Without possibility of the slightest injury to themost delicate fabric.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of al pinless marking ticket embodying one form of my invention, as the ticket appears when laid out flat, showing the display face thereof; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken on the line 2 2, Fig. l; Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. l and of a modified form of the ticket; Fig. 4 is a longitudinal Section thereof on the line @-1, Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a rear view of the ticket illustrated in Fig. 1 applied to a fabric, showing the attaching portions of the ticket bent or folded over upon and to embrace the fabric; Fig. 6 is a similar view of'the ticket shown in Fig. 3; Fig. 7 is a rear view, on a smaller scale, of the ticket illustrated in Fig. 3.

In practice the ticket comprises an elongated blank made up or formed of a plurality of superimposed plies l, 2, Fig. l, of non-metallic, fiexible material such as heavy paper or thin card-board, glued or cemented together.

The body or display portion of the ticket is shown at 3, and the foldable attaching portions or flaps 4, 5 are located at opposite ends thereof, and between the display portion and the said attaching portions the ticket is provided with transverse grooves 6, 6 on one face thereof, to wit, the back or under face, and with opposed permanently expanded portions 6", 6x on the opposite front or outer face thereof.

A non-elastic, metallic stii'ener is located between and concealed by the plies and extends the length thereof, and in the form of ticket illustrated the stiffener is shown as two wires 7 7 'arranged in parallelism near the longitudinal edges of the ticket and bridging or crossing said grooves.

In the'sect-ional view of the ticket, Fig. 2, the stilfener is shown as bent at 7", where it bridges the grooves 6, 6, but such bending of the stiiener may be omitted, as shown in Fig. 4, wherein the stiffener is a single wire 7, and in such case the transverse grooves may Stop short of the stiffener at opposite sides thereof.

The transverse grooves 6 provide a clear and accurate predetermined guide for the bending or folding over of the attaching portions 4, 5 of the ticket when applying the same to a fabric, and as they are formed on the back or under face of the ticket said grooves facilitate the bending and folding over by accommodating the material of the plies crowded together by such bending, while by their position they clearly and dis` tinctly dene the ends of the display portion 3.

The bends in the ticket embrace and pinch the sides or edges of the fabric to which the ticket is applied, the bends being retained by the non-elastic stiifener, which also maintains the attaching portions 4, 5 pressed firmly against the adjacent face of the fab-` ric, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6.

Preferably the attaching portions or aps 4, 5 jare in their combined length somewhat shorter than the length of the body or display portion 3, as they will then lie flat and smooth and in substantial alinement upon the back of the fabric, but if desired such flaps may be made long enough for one to overlap the other.

The transverse Ipermanently expanded portions 6X on the outer or .front face of the ticket, opposed to the grooves 6, insure a smooth and unbroken surface when the ticket is bent to be applied to a fabric, obviating any cracking or breaking of the face of the ticket and hence increasing not only its strength and durability but enhancing its appearance. Such permanently expanded portions provide the necessary amount of material to extend around the embraced edges of the fabric at the outer or convex sides of the bends made in the ticket, as will be apparent.

To apply the ticket the display portion 3 is laid across the face of the web or strip of fabric S, Figs. 5 and 6, and the flaps 4, 5 are bent or folded over and turned down firmly upon and against theback of the fabric, and retained thereupon by the nonelastic metallic stiffener, the pinching action of the Stiifener wire or wires retaining the ticket firmly in place upon the fabric by frictional engagement therewith. By

and permanently bending out the flaps 4 and 5 the ticket can be detached instantly and without difiiculty from the fabric.

In the form of ticket'illustrated in Figs. 3, 4, 6 and 7 the stiifener is shown as a single wire 7f, extended centrally of theticket, and bridging or .crossing the trans-- verse grooves 6, 6, said stiEener being shown as without bends, but the general features of the ticket as to the transverse grooves and the opposed permanently expanded portions 6x are the saine as heretofore described in connection with Figs. 1, 2 and 5.

While it is by no means necessary to separate the transverse grooves a distance substantially equal to the width of the fabric to be marked it is often convenient to do so, particularly when such fabrics have a standard width, as by such construction of the ticket it fits the fabric snugly and neatly and in a very attractive manner.

The transverse grooves forni lines of least resistance on which the ticket is bent, and the bends naturally follow or extend naturally along such lines when the ticket is applied to a fabric, so that the ends or fiaps turn over upon the fabric in line with each other and with the body or display portion, this feature being especially desirable in tickets provided with stift'ening means as herein set forth.

Various changes or modiicationsmay be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention as set forth in the claims annexed hereto.

Having fully described my invention, what i claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. As an article of manufacture a marking ticket comprising` an elongated blank formed of a plurality of plies of non-metallic, flexible material, secured together face` to-face, each of said plies being provided with transversely extending grooves on one face and permanently. expanded portions on the other face, said transverse grooves expandedl portions being opposed to each other on the faces of the respective plies, the combined lengthofvthe end portions of the ticket beyond the grooves and expanded portions being of -a combined length no greater than the body of the ticket between said grooves and expanded portions, and a non-elastic metallic stiffener located between and extending longitudinally of the plies and crossing the line of the grooves. y

2. As an article of manufacture a marking ticket comprising an elongated blank formed of a plurality of plies of iiexible non-metallic material secured together face to face, cach of said plies being provided at equaldistances from the ends thereof with In testimony whereof, I have signed my transverse grooves on one face and correname to th1s speelfcaton, in the presence 10 lated expanded portions on the other face, of two subscribing Witnesses.

and a non-elastic metallic stifener extending longitudinally of the plies and crossing GUSTAF A' WALLIN' said transverse grooves, said metallic sti- Witnesses:

ener being bent to conform With the said MELVILLE A. MARSH,

transverse grooves when it crosses the same. ARTHUR E. THOMPSON. 

